AFTER A TEEN’S PREMONITION OF A DEADLY RACE-CAR CRASH HELPS SAVES THE LIVES OF HIS PEERS, DEATH SETS OUT TO COLLECT THOSE WHO EVADED THEIR END.Installment #4 in the premonition-laden Final Destination series comes on like a poker-faced send-up of the previous episodes, featuring a collection of hilariously over-the-top deaths and the usual array of Rube Goldberg set-ups–except this time the chain reactions rarely result in mayhem. Fate, it seems, is more random than that. We open at a racetrack, where vapid teen Bobby Campo has a vision of slaughter involving cars crashing and bleachers crumbling. When he hustles girlfriend Shantal VanSanten and their friends out of the grandstands before the real conflagration, it doesn’t take long to figure out that their time is going to come, and soon. (Which they would have known if they’d watched the first three Final Destination movies.) From there, it’s just waiting around for the killings, which this time utilize a car wash, a beauty parlor, and a tow truck run amok. Perhaps the gruesomeness of the deaths this time is explained by the cheapjack production (gotta grab ‘em with something) and surely the many jabbing, jutting implements are there because the film was released to some theaters in 3-D. As for the death that occurs in a swimming-pool drain, it seems somebody read Chuck Palahniuk’s notorious story “Guts,” or at least had an ear for urban legends. The bland characters and tin-ear dialogue don’t help anything, even if the climactic sequence in a movie theater showing a 3-D film suggests a lurking sense of self-awareness. Moral: there may be three dimensions, but there’s only one destination. –Robert Horton
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January 18, 2006
#1
Paranormal Activity is one of the best horror movies of 2009. Paranormal Activity has just surprised the blair witch project as the most profitable movie ever. The box office hit was made less than $15,000 and as Wednesday has grossed a whopping $65.1. It’s horror in the truest sense of the word. Some people make commentaries about what they think most people say it’s just a horror movie, but Paranormal Activity goes beyond a simple horror movie to be the best horror movie of the year. Documenting the demonic torment of a young couple, Paranormal Activity brings audiences face to face with the devil and he doesn’t let go! By:Jean Carlos
January 18, 2006
#2
I don’t review too many movies and those I do, I either love or hate. The last “movie” I saw that was this bad was “Ruins” (and I didn’t think it was humanly possible to make anything worse than that). Well. . .I was wrong.
As I’ve seen most of the movies currently playing, my choices were very limited. So. . .after reading the blurb in front of the theater (which was the same mistake I made with Ruins), I decided to try Final Destination (and, sadly, they also didn’t have a poster displayed – now I know why). There was so much blood and gore during the first five minutes, along with some of the most asinine and insipid dialog imaginable, that one has to question what type of morons would actually create such nonsense, as well as the intelligence of anyone who would pay money (let alone sit through the entire “movie”) to see this. Normally, I don’t give away the plot but Final Destination obviously doesn’t have one. Of course, if you are so feeble-minded that you are entertained by human bodies being mutilated, in every possible conceivable (and non-conceivable) manner, have aspirations of becoming a serial killer, or have never had a brainwave in your life, this movie is certainly for you. Oh, I forgot to mention the “dialog” (if that’s what it was supposed to be) – stupid teenybopper/college age (but certainly not college bound) kids boozing it up at a demolition derby certainly didn’t require a script writer. The racist comments about a Black security guard by some of the lowlife trailer-trash characters, (“There goes the neighborhood”) while another moron whistles Dixie was certainly insightful into the clear lack of intelligence of the movie’s creators. Then, they added a little more “fun” – every trite and utterly insipid “special effect” was not only used to emphasize the dismemberment of countless cast members, but it seemed like there were at least twenty “actors” who were impaled with only God knows how many planks, stakes, or anything else that might be used, during the first few minutes.
After seeing enough blood and guts plastered across the silver screen (there was enough blood to fill both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans) that I literally walked out as the opening title was being displayed. I immediately had my ticket refunded and saw another movie instead.
Perhaps the most disturbing thing of all is that people not only spend money to produce fecal material such a “Final Destination” but that other people actually spend money to watch it. Of course, the movie was also shown in 3-D to assist “audiences” in enjoying the relentless splattering of body fluids – heck, it might be just about as much fun as going to a slaughter house or cutting off your own extremities with a dull knife.
January 18, 2006
#3
It was the best movie i have ever seen. Watch out and prepare to die not! or maybe? You decide
January 18, 2006
#4
SPOILERS!!Worst movie I’ve seen all year.If you’ve seen any of the other ones,you have pretty much seen this one.Same everything just different place and different people.Someone sees the future they cheat death,they try to figure out the cycle,think they beat it and guess what they don’t.SO PREDICTABLE,I thought it being the last one they might figure out how to beat “death”.Ends the same as the first one,when is this same story going to play out.I like the story to the movie but change at least something out of 4 movies.
January 18, 2006
#5
3d was not all that. But overall was good. The character George was funny! This movie had me wondering who was going to die first and last. I thought after all the other Destination’s someone would live until they died of natural causes. Was i wrong. Like i said this is the best Final Destination. Worth buying on dvd.